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The federal bill and Medicaid: What happens now?
Thursday, Jul 03, 2025
The new federal law that passed makes a lot of big changes to health care coverage, especially Medicaid (known as HUSKY in Connecticut). Based on what we know so far, here are the major Medicaid-related provisions, listed in order of when they take effect.
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Concerns that Medicaid work requirements will strip people of health coverage, and more in this week’s roundup
Thursday, Jul 03, 2025
Food programs in Connecticut could be at risk, worries that some covered by Medicaid will be too sick to work and keep coverage, formerly incarcerated people face barriers to health care, new blood test could help predict preeclampsia sooner, and how a SCOTUS decisions threatens the existence of Planned Parenthood.
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Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to preventable deaths, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Jun 20, 2025
New study shows proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to preventable deaths, federal cuts could lead to financial hardships for rural hospitals, deportations hurting long term health care workforce, CDC cuts affect women with chronic diseases, how Black fathers of children with autism are coming together to support each other.
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The health impacts of unreliable internet, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Mar 14, 2025
How potential Medicaid cuts could affect Connecticut residents, how a lack of internet access impacts some Americans’ health, lessons learned five years after Connecticut’s first case of COVID-19, more Black teens experiencing mental health crises, how food insecurity can impact cardiovascular health.
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Health care workers race to learn about immigration rights, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Feb 28, 2025
CT among states that sat on opioid settlement funds, efforts to address nursing shortage in CT, rural patients drive long distances for surgery, health care workers race to learn about immigration law in response to ICE raids, and undocumented immigrants describe the impacts of not having health coverage.
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Meeting people where they are to offer health coverage, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Feb 07, 2025
An innovative way of trying to connect people to health care, renewed hope for Black patients on kidney transplant list, outreach workers help bring overdose deaths down, telehealth visits hope to bridge gap in health care, and racial gaps in maternal mortality widened.
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Why adults in CT skip doctor’s visits, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Dec 20, 2024
Why adults in CT skip medical care, results of Medicaid study in CT, health protections for migrant children ending, Latinos in U.S. do not have adequate health coverage, and why Black women are being encouraged to speak up during child birth.
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Formerly incarcerated women in CT to receive help accessing health care, and more in this week’s roundup
Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024
New partnership aims to connect women leaving CT prison to health care, a third woman dies under Texas abortion ban, premature deaths remain at all-time high, gaps in mental health coverage in CT, and racial disparities in hearing aid use.
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New research finds puzzling disparities in heart health, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Nov 15, 2024
Stories about disparities in heart health and breast cancer, the leading cause of maternal death, the impact of a Trump presidency on health care in Connecticut, and the potential for millions of Americans to lose health care coverage if federal lawmakers don’t act.
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U.S. has made little progress toward ending racial health disparities, and more in this week’s roundup
Friday, Nov 01, 2024
Why Black Americans still suffer worse health outcomes, DACA recipients in CT can soon purchase health coverage, Medicaid unwinding can put people with opioid addiction in risky situations, infant mortality getting worse in the U.S. and a researcher looking into race in clinical algorithms.
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